Quotes about Contemplation

I smoke when I want to talk to God. I smoke when I want to make love. Lately I feel like me and God make love just fine anyhow.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:18

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have spent more hours in worship.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest [the Scriptures].